The Republican journal., 1887-12-15

With the damp snow falling upon them. Me
Donald and the Doctor would have hot coffee
at all hazards so built fire by the way>idc.
\ The others washed down the cold lunch with
cold water from brook near by. The horses
were harnessed and the march was taken up
for the Race ground. RGD
Notes and Comments.
France must get along without GrcNy. The
French Premier has resigned.
In the absence of john l.. Sullivan Boston
has found consolation in a savage dog fight.
One Of Barnum'> elephants swallowed over
three hundred cents, but we should have
thought he would have more sense.
Ex-Gov. st. John declines in advance the
prohibitory nomination for the Presidency.
Perhaps he is waiting to be bought.
The Vermont Republicans are organizing
and forming campaign clubs throughout the
State.
Maine holds an election two months before
Vermont, and as Dirigo is our motto we should
not let the Green Mountain boys get ahead of
us in preparing for the important contests of
1sSS.
1t is the belief of eastern cattle dealers who
have visited the country west of the Missouri.
that there will be IA sharp rise In the price of
beef at an early day. They find that there i a
less number of cattle in proportion to popnla-
laiion than has been the case for Il number Of
years. Boston journal.
This confirms the opinions of Hon. I.C. Libby
anil Governor Bodwell. printed in the journal
of Dee 1>t.
Louis >chillng, the German American who
Is II Washington demanding reparaton froul
the Mexican Government for alleged crl,eties
practiced upon him, is pronounced Il regular
CRANK.
lie must be IL crank. Any American citizen
who would look to the present Administration
for protection or redress from injuries received
on foreign soil must lie crank Secretary
Bayard las offered premium on this sort Of
thing and enjoys it, That is what he is in the
State Department for.
We are Indebted to Hon. Fred Atwood for "A
copy Of Social Science, a weekly journal pub
lished in New York city. The entire number
| is devoted to portraits and sketches of the An
| arch>ts recently executed at Chicago, from
| which we infer that the science it advocates is
in the use of dynamite bombs. a study that
| naturally. and properly, leads to the "ailow>.
We can get along i'll this country very well
| without that kind of science.
Our yacht>lnen may have the courage of st.
George himself, but they cannot GCat Gcncr-
al Paine so long as he can view the cnemN'S
hand six months before he meets him. Lon
don Field.
pf p1iu IL yin
the enemy's hand" until he gave them Il stern
view Of the Volunteer. The Thistle was
built under lock and key, launched in !. bag,
and false measurements sent to this country :;
| and Gen. Paine did not know anything about
her until his own craft was built and rugged.
Gen. Paine Is yachtsman and not = sneak
thief cup hunter.
Atlanta. Georgia, recently had an election to
decide whether prohibition should prevail or
| rum resume its sway. Rum was Victorious
The following item from The Metropolis. of
Jacksonville, Florida. tells how the victory
was celebrated:
Charnel liightower. a Young white man. was
set upon by three drunken. yelling rowdv
| negroes in Atlanta last Saturday night. while
they were hurrahing for the triumph of liquor.
and they struck him on the head with stone
from the effects of which he died We,incS tay
Deceased was merely passing along the street
when attacked. He did not know the villains.
Murat IIalStcad sends al editorial letter from
New York to the Cincinnati Commentaries
zette, in which he dissectS the Mjlgwump>. lie
says:
The Muswumps have landed in the Demo-
cratic party. They entered the rapids three
years ago with the purpose. they asserted. of
doing what they could with the Democratic
party as an agency of reform, and they have
shot Niagara and arc leclar u@, with the old
copperheaCs. that the highest duty of patriot
ism is patient submission to the Solid south
submission to the notification of the war
amendments of the constitution: submission
to the exclusion of Dakota; submission to the
consolidated section in the name OF peace and
the fear of agitation.
1t is evidently intended that Jake Sharp shall
20 unwhipped of justice: perhaps to renew his
| career of bribery and corruption in the con-
genial atmosphere of New York city. We are
surprised that even the Boston Herald should
approve of the preliminary steps just taken by
which it is expected Sharp will escape The
penalty of his crimes. The Boston Evening
Record takes the correct view of it. when it
says:
That Jake Sharp should be granted new
trial by the New York court OF appeal, is 4
hard blow to the faith the people of this coun-
try have been taught to repoSe in its courts OF
justice. 1t ought also to prove telling argll-
ment against the pcrnicols system of clecting
the judges which prevails in New York. That
Sharp was fairly tried cannot be doubted.
Every loophole in the law was discovered and
made use Of by his lawyers.
We frequently receive marked copies of the
enterprsing journals of the far West. with
invitations to boom their respective sections.
But while we are glad to read of the progress
and prosperity of any and every part of this
great country, we are actively engaged just
now in helping to boom this city and section,
and thus are compelled to leave the newspa-
pers of other places to work out their own
salvation. This may not sound well, but it is
human nature just the same BY the way.
wouldn't it be good plan for our prairie con-
temporaries to suggest to their readers that
sniff of the salt sea air OH the Maine coast
next summer would DO them Il world of good.
Please consider this Il marked item.
Newspaper Notes.